If I didn’t start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions.

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

It is the responsibility of leadership to work intelligently with what is given, and not to waste time fantasizing about a world of flawless people and perfect choices.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the induction of a new order of things.

The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.